FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Jan – Mar 2011)

FreeBSD’s quarterly status report for 2011 Q1 is now available. This report covers FreeBSD related projects between January and April 2011. During this quarter, developers focused on releasing FreeBSD 7.4 and 8.2, which were released in February 2011. Currently, the project is starting to work on the next major version, 9.0.

It’s good to see so much activity, projects and contribution to FreeBSD, most of which is done by dedicated volunteers.

From the table of contents:

Projects

• Bringing up OMAP3
• GEOM-based ataraid(4) Replacement — geom_raid.
• HAST (Highly Available Storage)
• New FreeBSD Installer
• OpenAFS Port
• pfSense
• RCTL, aka Resource Containers
• ZFSv28 available in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT

FreeBSD Team Reports

• FreeBSD Bugbusting Team
• FreeBSD NYI Admins Status Report
• The FreeBSD Foundation Status Report

Network Infrastructure

• DIstributed Firewall and Flow-shaper Using Statistical Evidence (DIFFUSE)
• Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD

Kernel

• Journaled Soft Updates
• Linux Compatibility Layer – DVB and V4L2 Support

Documentation

• New FreeBSD Handbook Section Covering HAST
• The FreeBSD German Documentation Project Status Report
• The FreeBSD Japanese Documentation Project
• Webcam and DVB Compatibility List

Architectures

• FreeBSD/arm on Marvell Raid-on-Chip
• FreeBSD/EC2
• FreeBSD/powerpc on Freescale QorIQ
• MIPS/Octeon Support and bootinfo

Ports

• FreeBSD as Home Theater PC
• FreeBSD Chromium
• FreeBSD Haskell Ports
• KDE-FreeBSD
• Linux Emulation Ports
• Portmaster
• Ports Collection
• www/apache22 Default

Miscellaneous

• BSDCan

Google Summer of Code

• Extfs Status Report
• Google Summer of Code 2011

Link: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Jan – Mar 2011)